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Otatc  of   llivqinin, 
EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT, 

liiCHMONiJ.  January   r».  iSG'j^ 


T"  ///'  Clnrli  of  the  County  Court  of 

Sir: 

By  rcprnwntflfions  from  Rcvnral  County  Courts,  it  appears  that  there  is  a  great  discn-panry 
between  the  statements  of  the  Cdtirts  and  the  statement  furnished  tlie  Governor  by  Captain  Sfanard  of 
the  Confederate  States  Engineer  Department,  relative  to  Slaves  called  for  to  work  on  the  public  defences. 
In  consequence  of  this  di.scrc]»ancy,  tin-  Ciovcrnor  requests  that  the  several  County  Courts  will  cause 
liim  to  be  furnished,  as  speedily  as  possible,  with  a  full  and  correct  statement  of  all  such  requisitions 
for  Slaves  made  and  complied  with,  and  the  authority  upon  which  each  requisition  was  based,  and  that 
a  copy  thereof  may  lie  transmitted  to  Captain  Stanard. 

The  Governor  desires  tlie  data  asked  for,  to  enable  him  to  avoid  errors  nd  inequalities  in  future; 
but  as  the  late  call  is  urirent,  it  is  not  to  be  aflect<*d  by  the  delay  necessaiy  to  obtain  the  information 
now  solicited. 

X'erA-  respectfully. 

Srcrftiirij  of  the  Cnmmonu-mlth. 


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